Around the World in 80 Days

What Hacker News says

1. v-erneJan 2023
   I used to read quite a lot when I was in my early teens and this is one od two books that I vividly remember (other being Around the world in 80 days). I sincerly believe that this idea of rebuilding civilization from grounds up was responsible for me getting into STEM and becoming who I am now.
   thread
2. tomjen3Jun 2011
   Awesome, but for those of use without an iPad, there is still www.gutenberg.org. They don't have that many beautiful illustrations, but they have far, far more literature and they are all in text files.

     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342 Pride and Prejudiced
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28054 The Brothers Karamazov
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1524 Hamlet
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28233 Sir Isaac Newtons Principa mathematica
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14986 Experimental Research in electricity by Michael Faraday
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/215 Jack Londons call of the wild
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/103 Around the world in 80 days
     http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3748 A Journey to the center of the earth
     

   And countless others, including Benjamin Franklins autobiography [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/148].

   The only sad things is that there are more books there than I will ever have time to read.

   Show morethread
3. officemonkeyMay 2011
   Right now I'm reading "Game of Thrones" on my kindle. Before that I was on a Jules Verne kick: "Around the World in 80 Days", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth" and "20,000 Leagues under the Sea" are all great fun.

   Sometimes I even read something work-related: "Bureaucracy" by James Wilson and "Managing the Unexpected" by Weick and Sutcliffe.

   thread
4. branonDec 2025
   The Gulag Archipelago is on my shelf, when I rotate back to Russian authors (big fan of Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Bulgakov) I will hopefully get to it.

   Here's my log for 2025, most recent at the top. Currently I am slogging my way through Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" which I'm not a fan of. Halfway done with it though!

   Gabrielle Zevin, "The Hole We're In" (not my usual genre, enjoyed this though)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (pretty good)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love" (PHENOMENAL, highly recommended)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "Methuselah's Children" (pretty good, required to understand "Time Enough for Love")

   Richard K. Morgan, "Altered Carbon" (very good)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "The Rolling Stones" (young adult, but good all the same)

   Robert A. Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (very good)

   Piers Anthony, "On A Pale Horse" (very good, never got very far into the series though)

   Lincoln Child, "Full Wolf Moon" (okay, not great)

   Lincoln Child, "The Forgotten Room" (pretty good)

   Lincoln Child, "The Third Gate" (very good)

   Lincoln Child, "Terminal Freeze" (okay, not great)

   William Gibson, "In the Beginning… Was the Command Line" (good, but outdated, look up what he's said about it more recently)

   Lincoln Child, "Deep Storm" (very good)

   James Patterson, "Along Came a Spider" (not my usual genre, okay though)

   Jules Verne, "Around the World in 80 Days" (from childhood, revisited)

   Show morethread
5. erikbernAug 2024
   Spoiler alerts but this exactly the plot twist at the end of the book "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verne

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Day...

   The following day Fogg apologises to Aouda for bringing her with him since he now has to live in poverty and cannot support her. Aouda confesses that she loves him and asks him to marry her. As Passepartout notifies a minister, he learns that he is mistaken in the date – it is not 22 December, but instead 21 December. Because the party had travelled eastward, their days were shortened by four minutes for every degree of longitude they crossed; thus, although they had experienced the same amount of time abroad as people had experienced in London, they had seen 80 sunrises and sunsets while London had seen only 79. Passepartout informs Fogg of his mistake and Fogg hurries to the Club just in time to meet his deadline and win the wager. Having spent almost £19,000 of his travel money during the journey, he divides the remainder between Passepartout and Fix and marries Aouda.

   Show morethread
6. fmajidJun 2024
   It's a plot device in Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, thus before the date line was established in 1885.
   thread